Eating clean and food allergies

**Bq791** · 09-28-2012 08:04 PM

Is it easier to eat clean after surgery and if you have food allergies do they get better?

**Honey** · 09-28-2012 08:21 PM

Eat clean? What does that mean?

**Bq791** · 09-28-2012 08:27 PM

Originally Posted by Honey

Eat clean? What does that mean?

Eating organic no processed or minimally processed food

**krissyfor** · 09-28-2012 08:41 PM

Well after surgery it's hard to eat clean because you can only have certain foods. I would say after a month, when you're basically able to eat what you want...then you could go to the non processed or minimally processed foods. I'm eating actually MORE processed foods now, because I'm eating canned chicken and tuna. It's convenient, and I have to eat on the run.

**scgal21** · 09-29-2012 08:45 AM

It is much easier to eat clean after the sleeve. I had several allergies before the sleeve and now so much better. I don't do refined processed foods.

**PKnorr** · 09-30-2012 02:44 PM

My food allergies will always be there, but since I'm eating protein and nothing refined it's pretty easy to stay away from wheat, corn, orange juice and eggs now make me throw up immediately so they are easy to stay away from.

**Grace** · 09-30-2012 04:03 PM

I found that the things that didn't go down well right after or even 2 months after surgery ended up being things I just shouldn't eat. Some I was sensitive to before and some maybe I was and didn't know. Eggs, wheat(gluten in general), whey protein, soy protein (for menopausal issues not otherwise), milk. All are on my leave them alone list. Before I could eat them once in a while but now it's like my body reacts even more powerfully to allergens than before. I believe this is because with a smaller stomach they aren't breaking down as well before they hit the upper intestine and like most allergic folks I have a bit of a "leaky" gut syndrome and it's just worse now. Enzymes and probiotics are my new best friends.
So, long story short, yes and no. Yes because you will perhaps have a powerful incentive to leave the bad foods be and no because you will probably still crave them again eventually. But for a while after surgery most folks don't crave much at all, so there is that.